Are you a Fish? (Napier) Napier, North Island, New Zealand
By andyice007 perrett gard family on 15-Sep-15. Waypoint GC62EMG

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Had another look for this one but no luck - looks to be abandoned now so maybe time to archive.

This appears to have been missing for a long time. Please check or archive.

I had a very good look but could only find snails, a bottle opener and little more, but no cache.
But at least I had a nice swim, although one pool was closed.

Looked around in nearby garden areas but no luck
Under what????
Will try once more

With a lot of DNFs before us, we weren't optimistic, and when we found where we had to search, we decided to have only a cursory look, but found nothing.

I found the carpark deserted at 5.20pm so confidently got out my pen before I started my search. It wasn't in the first place I thought it would be, so I did a search of a larger area, but no luck for me here.

No luck here today

no luck

I managed to talk the boys into one more cache before dinner at the local fish & chip shop. However after a lot of searching, a multitude of potential hides and still no luck - our tummies called it off.

Found it l.t.d don't know what happen to this log I found the key for the box in this cache...ltd

Couldn't find anything here.

No luck for me here today.

Quick find on our way into the pools. Initially looked in the wrong spot, found a cockroach and decided to abandon search. Spotted it was we were walking away. Cache was not well hidden and looked like rubbish in the garden. We tried to cover but it's very much out in the open.

Found with Matt4269. TFTC

Found it with yeoman phill

Found yesterday, Co ords a little bit off so we were looking in the wrong place but quickly found it after NS

Found it NS

Found it...ltd 200th find good hide nice easy find

Dropping TB off here.

Quick and easy cache. Dropped of a TB here. Did with Mycro Man on the way home to Kennedy Park where we were camping.

Did with Crystal Fairy.

DNF

I also swore I would not come back to look for this cache but after reading the last log I decided to give it a go. I am thankful that it has been moved and is more accessible.

Nice quick find today, thank you

Thanks for moving this so now there is no need to step in the garden. A quick find today. TFTC

After swearing I would not return, I got sucked in by the fact y daughter was playing netball only 20 Mtrs away. Had another good look, but again felt guilty standing on the garden. Again I request this cache be moved to a position where it is not necessary to stand or walk on a garden.

Not very easy in the dark, we will be back in the day time

Found it.

Coordinates changed from:
S 39° 30.380 E 176° 53.353

Coordinates changed to:
S 39° 30.368 E 176° 53.344

Distance from original: 84.3 feet or 25.7 meters.
We finally purchased a GPS so have checked our hides, updated coordinates which should make it easier to find.

Only looked briefly after reading over a few logs as we didn't want to climb over gardens or look really obvious. Have you considered a less public spot? There did seem to be a lot of options further away from the main entrance...

Had a go but was hard as the gps told us in the car park and the satellite view said to the side of the building. Decided that it needs to be on my 're-visit' list for when there arent so many muggles around and i can have a good search

We have found it through absolutely zero searching on our part- turned up just as it was found. Others had done all the hard yards! We are sorry for the stalking!

FTF as the co ords are out we started our search in the wrong area .... Just to let people know its not in the Aggies! We PAF to ask the previous lookers what hint they received to give us an idea where we should b looking. After receiving this information we found in about 30 seconds. We feel it needs to be moved closer to the edge so people don't need to stand in the garden. Jslove were lucky enough to turn up just as we had the cache in hand. Nice to catch up with them at another cache. Tftc

Knew from the map that the coords are possibly out but thought we'd have a quick hunt anyway. Nick arrived not long after us! Too many possible spots so have up after a short hunt around. Will wait for updated coords...

11:45 Mum and 4YO were at the supermarket when this was published - Mum had the day off with sick 4YO, so had a rare opportunity to find a cache during a work day.
Mum managed to park right on the co-ordinates (according to phone GPS - which can often be out) - unfortunately there was no hiding spot (let alone cache!)... Mum and 4YO widened the search and still no luck... Bugger!
Will be hard to search this location in the weekend, so may try again later (without the groceries in the car!)

Yep, co-ords put me bang in the middle of the car park. I had a very brief scout in a couple of possible places but this is a very high muggle area and nothing will last long where I looked. Will wait for the update.

Unfortunately coordinates appear to be out, and hint wasnt much use to us. Spent 15 or so minutes looking with Sunnybunny64, then another 15-20 with my kids.. we searched a good 25-30mtr radius of coordinates, and looked under everything we could think of to look under.. just didnt turn every plant over though. Will wait for coordinates to be corrected before returning.

Decided to join Nick on his mission to see if he could find this cache. Thought it would be better later at night (8pm) but the car park was still full and there were heaps of muggles! Had a good hunt around but eventually had to get hints from the CO. Even after very detailed instructions we still couldn't find this. I honestly think that this needs to be rehidden somewhere else as trampling on gardens is not good and it really could be anywhere. Also the plants in this garden are quite prickly so a person would need gloves if they didn't want to get stinging hands. There are some very cool spots around here so my suggestion would be to have a look around and place the cache somewhere else. I will not be back to look for this cache, even if someone finds it as it is one of those ones that would just be a total fluke. Thanks for hiding a cache here but please think about moving it somewhere else (ask Nick for the spot he came across while we were looking earlier in the day, it would be perfect!).

Spent about an hour looking for this one last night with Sunnybunny and Nickhbnz. With a few hints from the CO we still resulted in a DNF. I personally do not believe this is a suitable place to hide a cache, it is almost impossible to find and I am not even going to bother giving this one another attempt due to the ridiculousness of the location. I left the area with cuts on my hands, feet and legs from searching and I do not believe that should be part of trying to find any cache. The description the CO has given of the cache container does not fit the guidelines, A glass container should never be used under any circumstances, this is stated clearly in the placement rules. Good luck to everyone else who attempts this one but I am not sure if it is worth the time.

Came back for another look with a good hint from the CO, and met up with a few others looking. Unfortunately it seems this cache requires some climbing on the garden to reach, which I was not particularly happy to do, but still gave it go. After a good half hour or more of 3 of us searching, we ended up with cut hands and covered in sap, not a pleasant experience, and still no cache found.
My personal opinion is there are far better places in this area to place a cache, and although I thank you for taking the time to hide this one, I will not be back for another look.

Interestingly when co-ords are plugged into GoogleMaps it gives a different location to what it showed on the phone... And then geocaching website again gives another spot!!! Mum went back to look in a more likely spot after lunch (4YO opted to stay in the car with her doll) - all Mum found was tree sap, rubbish, lollies, and gum (ugggg) - thank goodness for hand sanitiser!

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